Gustov Vadim Anatolyevich was born on December 26, 1948 in a peasant family in the Vladimir region. Graduated from the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geological Exploration Institute. In 1990, he graduated from the Kashnin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute with a degree in State Construction. For seven years, he worked as a foreman, shift supervisor, and head of a large site at the Uchkuduk uranium mines in Uzbekistan Since 1977-mining foreman, head of the site at the mine of the Phosphorite production association (Kingesepp). And' 19 "' 8-1991-at the party-Soviet work in Kingesepp. 1991-1993-Chairman of the Leningrad Regional Council of People's Deputies. 1994-1996-Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs of the Federation Council of Russia. 1996 - General Director of the Development Assistance Humanitarian Foundation) CIS and President of the Union "North-Western Consent". Since October 3, 1996-Governor-Chairman of the Government of the Leningrad Region, member of the Federation Council of Russia. On September 18, 1998, he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Married. Has two sons. Vadim Anatolyevich Gustoe agreed to become First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation at a very difficult time - in the midst of the August-September crisis, when the newly formed Cabinet of Ministers did not yet have a program to get the country out of it. It was a time when the brightest minds of the domestic economy and finance refrained from making forecasts, and the swirl of prices and the dollar exchange rate, the panic at the counters, seemed to confirm the darkest predictions of the press. But Gustoe still agreed, despite the fact that the prospects in the governor's field of activity were incomparably more favorable than at the federal helm. Moreover, the policy of the regional leader has already begun to bring visible results. During the governorship of Gustov, the decline in production in the Leningrad region was stopped, and in a numb ... Read more